Quotes About Contentment

If you're enough lucky to be Irish, you're lucky enough!

Who would believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur?

The tedium is the cornerstone of the stability of their relationship, and the fact that they have nothing to say to each other means that they feel no uneasiness about each other.

What you have, you don't need, and what you need, you don't have.

I could not be greedy, about money, I could not be greedy about miles or rides, and I could not be greedy about closeness with people; all things come in their own time, and are not mine to keep or covet - just to enjoy and learn from.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks — I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.

Got no checkbooks, got no banks, Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.

If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.

The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.

An innocent bachelor, he lived like a bird on a branch

I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

When love exists, nothing else matters, not life's predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.

The best-adjusted people are the 'psychologically patriotic,' who are glad to be what they are.

I hope you're happy, darling.

I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of exotic faraway places. But ultimately, what I long for isn't far away at all. It's in my own backyard. Imperfection charms me, familiar things move me... a celebration of what we have, instead of what we long for. That for me, is glamor.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

The moment she had laid the child to the breast both became perfectly calm.

the springs of human joy are almost always poisoned by possessiveness; and the joy of possession is restricted by the object possessed and by the fear of losing it.

May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.